On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:31:21PM -0500, Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
>
> > RFC 1855 (the Netiquette RFC) Section 2.1.1, contains the following:
> >
> > - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
> > with a carriage return.
>
> 65?!? I thought 72 was a standard. I set it to 70 and thought it was
> a nice limit. Wow, and that's only from 1995.
Surprised me too. I'm not sure what 65 gets you other than letting
people use overly-verbose quoting, or letting people quote seven
levels deep.
On the other hand, 72 is a mature standard with a history, and
besides, what would we do if a stack of cards fell over?!
-Rich
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